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Word: nosedives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yale, however, turned in what may be the top collegiate athletic performance of the year when it nosed out the top crews in the nation to become America's eight-man rowing representative in Australia this winter.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Places Second to Yale In Ivy Figures | 7/12/1956 | See Source »

For nearly six months, peak-nosed Airman William P. (for Powell) Lear, 54, a restless, uninhibited manufacturer-inventor (Lear, Inc.), has been flying his Cessna 310 plane around Europe on a businessman's crusade. He wanted to show Europeans how simple and safe it was to fly their own...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Flight to Russia | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

At 1:31, only 15 minutes from Idlewild and within sight of the brilliant lights of Manhattan, the Constellation burst into orange fire. It lurched sharp to the right, held steady for ten seconds, swerved sharply right again. Then it nosed, plunged 8,000 ft. to the sea, exploded.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Death in the Moonlight | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

Also absent from the edited dialogue was the voice of an unnamed delegate shouting from the hall, "Why didn't you kill him?" and Khrushchev's reply: "What could we do? There was a reign of terror." No mention was made, either, of the fact that, at Stalin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Echoes of the Terror | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

SecurityMeasures.Gangling,sharp-nosed Reporter Wally Turner, 35, and his partner, thick-spectacled Bill Lambert, 36, are such familiar prowlers along Portland's corrupt trails that the underworld knows them as "Fishface and Bugeyes." The latest trail took them over thousands of feet of magnetic tape-70 hours of eavesdropped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scandal in Portland | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

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